USA Today founder dies at age 89

7:50 PM,
Apr. 19, 2013

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Allen H. Neuharth, the newspaper visionary and former Gannett chairman who founded USA Today, helped create a museum dedicated to news and became one of the industry's most influential and sometimes controversial figures, died Friday at his home in Cocoa Beach, Fla. He was 89.

"As a journalist, I had a wonderful window on the world," Neuharth wrote in "Plain Talk," a final column he said should be published in USA Today after his death. "For nearly 50 years as a reporter and editor, I tried to tell stories accurately and fairly, without opinion."